Michael Nath
author, The Treatment and La Rochelle; senior lecturer in creative writing and English literature, University of Westminster

Michael is the author of three novels. His first, La Rochelle (2010), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. His latest, The Treatment (2020), was ‘book of the year’ in the Daily Telegraph, the Morning Star, the Arts Desk, the iPaper, and was a Sunday Times Crime Club ‘paperback of the week’. AN Wilson wrote that Treatment will ‘stay in my head forever’ (TheTablet). In the Guardian, David Peace described The Treatment as ‘the book I wish I’d written’, adding, ‘it remains a mystery to me how that book did not win every prize going’.

Michael teaches both creative and literary courses on the Novel at the University of Westminster. He is married to the neuroscientist Sarah Tabrizi, and lives in London and Swansea.

Follow Michael on Twitter @MichaelNath11

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